Open Foris is a set of free and open-source software platforms that helps countries measure, monitor and report on forestry progress, take science-based actions, and accelerate forest pathways:
- national forest inventory and in-situ data collection;
- measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for environmental integrity;
- deforestation-free supply chains; and
- restoration monitoring.
Part of FAO's open-source digital public goods, it serves as a transformative accelerator, ensuring innovative, accurate, and transparent forest monitoring accessible to everyone, everywhere, enhancing effectiveness and impact, while meeting the urgent need for systems that enable accurate, yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of forest and other land cover.
Highlights
Call for Inputs: Indigenous Peoples' Experiences with Ecosystem Restoration and Monitoring
04/08/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pleased to invite Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and relevant partners to contribute...
New FAO digital publication showcases how Open Foris is strengthening climate transparency globally
17/07/2026
FAO has launched a new digital publication, Transparency...
Microlearning video series: Open Foris ARENA
15/05/2026
Explore this series of bite-sized e-learning video modules to quickly build practical skills in designing surveys and collecting high-quality field...
Practical workshop on peatland monitoring with SEPAL
18/05/2026
In Iquitos, FAO, through the AIM4Forests program and in coordination with the Peru Indigenous Peoples Group, held a practical workshop to strengthen...
SEPAL in action: Turning satellite data into better forest decisions
22/06/2026
Forests are changing fast, and better decisions depend on reliable information. SEPAL is FAO’s open-source, cloud-based Earth observation platform that...
Open Foris Ground elearning
01/10/2025
This course describes the growing challenges of field data collection and the use of open-source solutions like Open Foris Ground. In this course, you...
Transparency in practice:Country experiences using Open Foris for climate reporting
05/08/2026
This brief brings together key insights from the first Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR) cycle and turns them into practical entry points for the next one. Drawing on United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) synthesis reports, Technical Expert Review findings, and a systematic review of all BTRs (submitted by 9 July 2026), National Inventory Documents (NIDs), and Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation...
Partners
Open Foris: strengthening climate transparency
Reliable forest and land-use data are vital for credible climate reporting, yet LULUCF remains the most frequently reported capacity-building need in the first cycle of BTRs. Open Foris helps countries address it with free, open-source tools for forest and land monitoring. Click here to learn more.
- National Forest Monitoring
- SEPAL
- CBIT-Forest
- AIM4Forests
- REDD+ program
- Global Forest Resources Assessments
- Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform
- FERM platform
- Google Earth Engine
- UN-REDD Programme
- NICFI Satellite Data Program
- Planet
- United Kingdom's Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety
Contact
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00153 Roma RM (Italy)
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